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Portable directories [ Print culture ]

… they were effectively used by consumers. Objects > Print culture Keywords genealogical knowledge status Rank Politeness pride identification From the Restoration onwards, there was a close relationship between urban growth, sociability and … us to understand how they were effectively used by consumers. … genealogical knowledge … status … Rank … Politeness … pride … identification … Portable directories …

Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]

… and Clara Tuite (ed.), A Companion to Jane Austen (Chichester, UK and Malden: ME: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), p. 343-354. 9 Pride and Prejudice, ed. Pat Rogers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), I.i.3. 10 Persuasion, ed. Janet Todd … for staging social hierarchies and conducting courtship. Public assemblies, like the opening ball at Meryton in Pride and Prejudice (1813), were organised by subscription and offered opportunities for interaction between social ranks … from the Napoleonic wars: men who represent a new and worthier merit-based social order ( Cossic-Péricarpin, 545) . 13 Pride and Prejudice, ed. Pat Rogers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), II.ii.158. Evolving Austen …

Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]

… living ‘in Luxury and Ease’, 5  but as they become too virtuous, the community collapses. Indulging in self-interest, pride, vanity, and luxury, he suggests, provides employment and aids trade. Thus, luxury, the ‘private vice’ is also a … and ‘to that purpose had consulted a great milliner at Westminster’. 12  The letter-writer finds the women so full of ‘pride and vanity’, so keen on spending lavishly, that he quits his original plan of proposing to one of them. Especially …

Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]

… protest. However, some ‘Low-church’ Anglicans were more than happy that Greatrakes was determined ‘to abate the pride of papists that make Miracles the undeniable Manifesto of the truth of their Church’ 2   According to Hebert Croft …

James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]

… of this coin is that he seemed happy to be made fun of when that furthered the sociability of a social situation. His pride and satisfaction at engineering the Johnson/Wilkes dinner, and of course in being able to parade that in the Life …

Solitude [ Feelings and Emotions ]

… his treatise Converse with God in Solitude , first published in 1664, identified not the pleasures of solitude, but the ‘pride and self-ignorance’ of those willing to elevate themselves above the conversation of others. Baxter warned that …